As of today, you have one more week left to snag some Bigfoot pieces from Flatcolor Gallery (528 First Avenue South, Seattle, WA) — lucky you! Snatch ‘em up while you still can! The full-color painted pieces are not cheap, but I don’t imagine they’ll get any cheaper anytime soon. Luckily, there’s some diversity in this show so that those with less funds can still -somewhat- afford a Bigfoot original.

The Reckoning - 30″ x 20″ - acrylic,ink,and resin on wood - $2,000.00

Guitarmageddon - 16″ x 20″ - silkscreen by artist and varnish on wood - $250.00

Go Green - 18″ x 24″ - silkscreen and varnish on wood - $200.00

Almost missed this show by Ariana Page Russell, who works taking photographs of skin.

“How can that possibly be interesting?” you ask?

Judging by the description, I would have imagined some kind of macro biological photography analysis of skin, but Russell’s photographs of skin are just as much about the human being their stuck onto than the skin itself. Her work is conceptually creative and visually engrossing.

This show at Platform Gallery (114 Third Avenue S, Seattle, WA) closes out tomorrow, so catch it quickly!

Now through June 19th at James Harris Gallery (312 2nd Ave. S., Seattle, WA), Tanya Batura will be showing her earthenware and acrylic life-sized human forms. While picture-perfect from some angles, her creations are flawed from other viewpoints — the faces crumpling at scarred points and missing complete cross-sections.

Tonight is First Thursday in Seattle, and we’re going to change up our usual write-up a teeny bit by featuring a style of art we don’t talk about much, on display at a gallery we’ve never talked: Artforte Gallery (307 Occidental Ave S, Seattle). On display will be series from Valerie Stuart’s Portalis series:

Also on display are works by Kenneth Susynski, who also currently has a show at Alexis Hotel with Troy Gua and Alicia Tormey.

Head over there from 5:00pm to 8:00pm tonight.

Portland artist Timothy Karpinski is no newcomer to Seattle’s art scene, and First Thursday this month (June 3rd, 2010) marks the date of his solo show at Flatcolor Gallery. On hand will be scores of his delicately paper-cut images, as well as some large-scale pieces as well as building a small sailboat for the show’s theme, Let’s Sail Away.

On his art, Karpinski says:

From a young age ive always been making things. Building forts turned into building skate ramps which lead to building art installations. I love the art making process, from the initial spark of the “idea”, the creation to the finished product. Art for me is very personal and everything i make is a direct reflection on my feelings about this world and my struggle and fascination with trying to understand it and find my purpose within it. I currently live, love and work in Portland oregon where i run Together Gallery and work in my studio till very late at night making art about love. I am also figuring things out :)

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This June will also feature works by Mia Nolting, an artist whose works are visually-appealing, sure, but also just cute, clever, and full of one-liners and typography.

AMDEF 2010

“Seattle’s most influential annual spring arts exposition.”

For the third year running, a collaboration of the Northwest’s most creative, forward thinking minds of the music, performing arts, and fashion communities unite to produce and annual Event that merges Art, Music, Dance,Entertainment, and Fashion in celebration of the Northwest Art Culture.

This Event doubled in attendance over the first two years. Upcoming AMDEF highlights include:

o Headliners: Truckasaurus, (Bumpershoot, Sasquatch, Capitol Hill Block Party) with local legend Mash Hall in anticipation of collaborative production to be released spring 2011.

o Designer Joseph Madeo, having previously designed for Lamborghini, Oksana Baiul, Lil Kim, and Jenna Jameson, will be returning to Seattle to debut newest line, “Ether.”

o Electro Duo CyberSutra, after constantly topping the US National Billboard Charts with hit singles like “Fly Away,” “I believe,” and “Fire,” will be returning to Seattle to debut the music video release of “Bad Self,” As performed LIVE by Guilty Obsessions Burlesque.

o Noel Austin, recent contestant on “America’s got Talent,” performing live during debut of new fashion line “DNA.”

o Side stage hosted by former Grammy Award Winner DJ Punish.

o Main stage hosted by Nathaniel Luke, (Previous Co-Host of Santino Rice Red Carpet Event, Creative Director of Super Sonic Theater, current host of Chance: Where the Art of Fashion Innovates, and Deevious Decadence.)

AMDEF 2010 actively supports 100 + aspiring and established individuals from various genres of the art communities, ranging from painter’s to local celebrity designers. This Event is guaranteed to continuously raise the bar for Northwest Art. The collaboration of such a diversity of Artists and Talent draws a truly unique crowd, cultivating a genuine sense of community and progress.

Support a culture of the arts at AMDEF 2010, May 28^th at Heaven Nightclub.

For full talent lineup and event information visit: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/99326

Pioneer Square’s First Thursday Art Walk is coming up the First Thursday of May 2010, as it tends to do. I recently stumbled across La Familia Gallery’s promotional tool for their Art Walk openings, and it’s a great idea! I’m surprised I haven’t seen the videos before. Here’s the one from April 2010. Go visit them this Thursday, May 6th, or check out more videos here.

Tomorrow’s show at Flatcolor Gallery is going to be ridiculously awesome, so go, go, go, Seattlites! Portland residents Sohaila Adela and Mark Warren Jacques will be invading Seattle with new works galore.

New drawings by Adela, entitled Esoteric, will explore the same themes she’s been exploring in the recent past — mysticism, rituals, femininity.

Jacques’ For this, I would lean into it will showcase his thoughtful explorations of form and color, which are simplistic at first glance but hold minor detail by way of texture and technique. His work will also be exhibited at White Walls in San Francisco, in a group show, starting April 3rd.